Alternative and Radical

Alternative

Alternative adjective - Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities.

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Radical and alternative are semantically related. in unorthodox topic. In some cases you can use "Radical" instead an adjective "Alternative".

Radical adjective - Being very far from the center of public opinion.

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Alternative and radical are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead an adjective "Radical".

Nearby Words: radically, radicalism, radicalize, radicalise, radicalised

Weirdly, despite being an immortal Japanese radical, she only ever listens to American alternative rock.

Source: Fan Fic / The Misery Senshi Neo Zero Double Blitzkrieg Debacle
Pixies also tend this way, but they are more caricatures of more modern scruffy impoverished alternative-lifestyle radical-environmentalist "crusty" types.

Source: Tabletop Game / The Small Folk
Characterized by baroque multicultural fashion, alternative/ queer sexuality, bizarre retellings of familiar faerie tales, pervasive anxiety, fear of inevitable change, elaborate symbolism and radical reinterpretation, mythpunk is a cross-media movement.

Source: Mythpunk

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